Finnish Settlement of Brown and Dickey Counties 1881-1955 Biographies

History of the Finnish Settlement in Brown and Dickey Counties of South and North Dakota, 1881-1955 is a comprehensive guide to the Finnish settlement of the aforementioned counties, including about 300 short biographical and genealogical entries about almost every Finnish family in the region, as well as an introductory section which includes general histories and photographs of churches and other organizations. About one third of the family biographies have pictures.

What follows below is not a complete index of the book. Instead, this is a list of all of the biographies - which are listed by the head or progenitor father or grandfather of each pioneer family. They can very in length from two sentences to two pages. Some families have two names - their name in Finland and their name in the United States - in these instances the family head / biography title is listed twice.